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JUDGMENT IN THE YELVERTON CASE

... Judgment in the appeal case Longworth (or Yelverton) v. Yelverton, was given in the House of Lords on Tuesday. I'he Lord Chancellor shortly recalled their lordships attention the proceedings which had taken place. the Bth June, 1859, the respondent raised an action to have it declared that the applicant was not his wife, that was free of any marriage with her. On the 13tli of January, 1860, ...

General News

... Brigbam Young, the Mormon prophet, was 66 years old on the Ist of Jane last. Fifty Mormon missionaries from Salt Lake have arrived at Omaha, on their way to Europe. The steamer Imperatrice Eugene has arrived at Saint Nazaire, with 1,200,000 francs specie. A fatal case of cholera has occurred in Halifax. The deceased was Miss Elizabeth Hiley, and she died after about 48 hours' illness. The ...

DREADFUL MURDER AT ST. HELENS

... Shortly after twelve o'clock on Saturday night last, a murder was committed near St. Helens. Tho murdered man is Adam Mather, about sixty years of age. He was a man in ea ...

SHOCKING MURDER AT ST. HELENS

... Shortly after twelve o'clock on Saturday night last, a murder was committed near St. Helens. The murdered man is Adam Mather, about 60 years of age, and lives in a detached house at Greenleach, about half a mile from Carr Mill, on the St. Helens Road. Ho was a man in easy circumstances, possessing a good income from household property, but, to fill up his time, worked at the Garswood Colliery ...

THE ST. HELENS MURDER

... At the Liverpool assizes on Saturday, before Lord Chief Justice Bovdl, the trial of John Smith, charged with the murder of Adam Mather, at Wiudle, near St. Helens, on the 21st J ...

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT ST. HELENS

... DREADFUL MURDER, ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND BURGLARY. Saturday, about midnight, a most atrocious murder and attempted murder and robbery were committed near St. Helens. The ...

MISCELLANEOUS

... A Royal Train.—The special train which the Emperor went with his suite from Paris to Salzburg is described as exceeding in comfort and elegance anything of the kind that has hitherto been known. The train consisted of nine carriages, communicating with each other by tastefuUy decorated bridges. In the middle was a handsome sitting-room, furnished with chairs, ottomans, sofas, mirrors, pictures ...

Casualties and Crimes

... Revolting Execution China.—The North China HeraU gives terrible account of recent execution at Shanghai. The victim was woman, who being enciente when the sentence of death was passed on her, obtained a respite till the child was born:— cord was placed round the unfortunate woman's neck, and gradually tightened till strangulation was nearly effected, when the cord was loosened and breath ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1867
Newspaper: Norfolk News
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 4095 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: adam mather murder 

MARKETS

... WREXHAM. White wheat 10 10 9 Red wheat 10 3 10 Oats 3 9 4 Barl#»y 56 Potatoes, new, (per score) 8 0 —10 0 Butter 12 13 Eggs twenty for a shilling* MOLD. Corn.—Wednesday: Wheat, 21s to 22s per hobbet; barley, 14s Od to 15s Od j oats, 10s Od to lis Od butter per lb. Is 2d to 03 Od. OSWESTRY. Corn.—Wednesday: Wheat, red, 103 01 10s ditto, white, 0s Od to 0s 0d; barley, malting, Od Os Od ; barley, ...

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... FOREIGN In the Austrian Parliament, the principles of re- hciout liberty make progress. It is proposed to ?? civil marriages, to emancipate schools from ti e control -- c Church, aud to make all re_m. ns equal in the eye of the law. In the peugj code it is proposed to abolish corporal punish- meet a-d working malefactors in chains. Constantinople telegram states that Omar j _c_i» bas reported ...

WANDERINGS OF A TRAMP IN THE PROVINCES

... WANDERINGS OF A TRAMP IN THE PROVINCES. Tramp sends for publication the following interesting account of his wanderings in the provinces : — I am a clerk, with three children and a wife, destitute, having had very little employment for many months. After trying all means of getting something to do in London, I started six weeks since into the country to look for work, willing to take ...